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Tuesday, 4.30.24

Links of interest…  Formed by the desert (Richard Rohr at Center for Action & Contemplation [CAC]) / A friend request (Luke Doherty at Dominican Friars)

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Monday, 2.12.24

After fifteen-and-a-half years of waiting, this New Year’s Day I finally started revamping my blog— all the posts first; then the links on the “saints” page before getting to the rest of the pages— and have come across lots of worthwhile nuggets, old and new, in the process.

Links of interest…  5Sparrows (for parents & kids)…  About saints…  Catholic Harbor of Faith & Morals: saints index…  Christmas tunes: classics, country, Dial-a-Carol, iheartchristmas, North Pole Radio, & real-live…  Daily Prayers…  Divine Mercy song (complete)…  Divine Office…  Dominican Friars livestream…  Faith ND (Notre Dame)…  FishEaters: being Catholic / home (saints index) / lists…  Fr. Romano Guardini: Meditations on the Christ…  Inspiration Daily (blog)…  Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, symbols, & texts…  Judas Iscariot: why Jesus was betrayed…  Little with Great Love (blog)…  Loyola Press: saints resources…  MaryPages…  My Catholic Life: saints by date & name…  National Black Catholic Congress: homilies & reflections…  Paper Dali…  Passionist Nuns (blog): Up to Jerusalem…  Paulist Fathers: homilies & online Mass (Old St. Mary’s-Chicago)…  Santo Niño de Cebú song…  Snow globe ideas…  St. Ephrem’s marvelous sermon on the cross of Christ…  St. Francis prayers: Assisi, de Sales, & Xavier…  St. John the Baptist: traveling preacher / where is his head…  St. Luke: 10 things to know & share / amazing facts…  Stations of the cross: downloadable coloring pages for kids / on your block…  Sts. Dominic of Silos & Dominic of Guzmán… Thanks-giving square (Dallas, TX)…  Thomas Aquinas prayers…  Veiled Christ: Miracle of transparent marble…  Visits to Jesus in the Tabernacle: Hours and half-hours of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament (Fr. F.X. Lasance, 1897)…  Yale Divinity School: reflections (archives)…  Young Catholics (resources)

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Wednesday, 11.1.23

Thanks to COVID-19 something unexpectedly wonderful happened: we were forced to think about Mass attendance differently.  Then, after St. Joseph’s stopped zooming its services, I ventured out in search of a happy home online.  It took lots of time, lots of Masses at various places but, finally, I found a place to call home once again when I discovered St. John the Evangelist in Greenfield, WI (October 20, 2021).

I feel like Goldilocks.  Everything is just right, with an emphasis on diversity, fulfillment, accessibility, and a sense of belonging without having to be physically present.  My heart knows no bounds.  I can attend Mass anytime, take notes to my heart’s content, be in reflection mode at will, and share with others.

Fr. Mike Merkt, OFM, is pastor; but others— Fr. Alex and Fr. Dominic among them— celebrate daily Mass, too.  Best of all, the church’s YouTube channel, which started February 4, 2021, features hundreds of Masses that I can (re)visit day or night.

Mass (CT): Daily at 8 a.m.  Saturday vigil at 4:30 p.m.  Sunday at 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.

Links of interest…  St. John the Evangelist: home / Mass videos / website (bulletins)

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Monday, 8.29.22

Link of interest…  Stay awake, Bishop Barron

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Monday, 5.23.22

Knowing what I now know, if I were not already a Christian, I would hesitate in becoming one, at least until the religion in all its major forms offers a fearless, searching, public moral accounting for its past crimes… first, against Jews, and also against its own nonconformist members (Richard Rohr, OFM).

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Sunday, 5.22.22

Let’s be honest: religion has probably never had such a bad name.  Christianity is now seen as “irrelevant” by some, “toxic” by many, and often as a large part of the problem rather than any kind of solution.  Some of us are almost embarrassed to say we are Christian because of the negative images that word conjures in others’ minds (Richard Rohr, OFM).

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Monday, 4.11.22

So how do we love God?  Most of us seem to have concluded we love God by attending church services.  For some reason, we think that makes God happy.  I’m not sure why.  Jesus never talked about attending services, although church can be a good container to start with.  I believe our inability to recognize and love God in what is right in front of us has allowed us to separate religion from our actual lives.  There is Sunday morning, and then there is real life (Richard Rohr, OFM).

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